If you are looking to build a lot of muscle but you don’t have the time to spend hours every day in the gym, then you would be interested in the kind of workouts that can help you build considerable muscle mass without spending a lot of time. Yes there are actual workouts that are more efficient than the ones you may be used to and you get more results than when you spend hours lifting weights. With these exercises, there is no need for you to do a lot of repetitions. You would just have to do 2 or 3 sets of about 8 – 10 repetitions. By the time you are done with your workouts, you would have fatigued your muscles. This basically means that you would not be able to do more even if you tried.
To be able to do this, you would have to be lifting the heavier weight that you can do with proper form when exercising. Performing lesser repetitions with heavier weights means you exercise sessions would be both short and more efficient that when you do a lot repetitions with lighter weights. You would also have to do the kinds of exercises that workout several muscles at the same time. They are called compound exercises. There is no need performing isolated workouts like triceps presses and bicep curls, you need the kind of exercises that would target multiple muscles at the same time. An example of compound exercises are: squats which would require your hamstrings, quadriceps, gluteus and lower leg muscles to perform them. Doing this kind of exercise is like performing multiple exercises at the same time. The stronger your muscles become, the more you can add extra weights. As for your upper body, you should also do the same. An upper body exercise than workouts multiple muscles is the row exercise. Even the popular pull-ups and push-ups exercises work out several muscles at the same time. In less than one hour you can work out your whole body if you make a tactical plan on the exercises you would be doing in the gym. This would leave you time to do other activities like relaxing which you need to build muscle. On your work out days it is better to do both your lower body and upper body on the same day instead of dividing it between days. Then you take a day or two days as rest between your workout sessions. This is better so that your body would have more time to recover. It is actually when you are resting that is when your body builds muscle tissues. This is why you have to get adequate sleep every night especially on your rest days. Doing this would help your body in healing and building muscle tissues faster. If you exercise for long hours every day, you are not going to experience much muscle growth because your body hasn’t gotten then time to heal and build muscle. So, if you are looking to pack on muscle as fast as possible, bear in mind these tips that you have just read.
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